How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Source: In The World's Best Thoughts on Life & Living, compiled by Eugene Raudsepp, 1981.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (Aug 28 1749-1832), German poet, dramatist; He was the greatest figure of the German Romantic period, e.g., Faust, 1808.